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noun
1.
an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
2.
Psychoanalysis. a psychoneurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks, disturbances of sensory and motor functions, and various abnormal effects due to autosuggestion.
3.
Psychiatry. conversion disorder.
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Hysteria
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example Sentences
- This hysteria has to stop.
- Winners will be determined by audience hysteria.
- This kind of non-thinking and stereotypically-driven hysteria has no place among civilized people.
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World English Dictionary
| hysteria (hɪˈstɪərɪə) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | See also conversion disorder a mental disorder characterized by emotional outbursts, susceptibility to autosuggestion, and, often, symptoms such as paralysis that mimic the effects of physical disorders |
| 2. | any frenzied emotional state, esp of laughter or crying |
| [C19: from New Latin, from Latin hystericus | |
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Word Origin & History
hysteria
1801, coined in medical L. as an abstract noun from hysteric (see hysterical).
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Medical Dictionary
hysteria hys·ter·i·a (hĭ-stěr'ē-ə, -stēr'-)
n.
A neurosis characterized by the presentation of a physical ailment without an organic cause, such as amnesia.
Excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear.
hys·ter'ic (hĭ-stěr'ĭk) or hys·ter'i·cal (hĭ-stěr'ĭ-kəl) adj.
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